[Editor's Note: I hope there are enough concerned and intelligent parents in Texas who will realize the gravity of this unconstitutional affront on their parental rights and immediately organize a challenge to this outrageous 'proclamation' (executive order) in the courts and send the self-appointed "Decider" of Texas a clear and unmistakable message that the PARENTS of Texas schoolgirls will decide on which vaccines their daughters will or will not have, and not Merck Pharmaceuticals or their obliging representative in Austin, Gov. Richard Perry. To learn more about the many dangers which vaccines pose for the immune system and the fallacy of their effectiveness, see our page on Vaccine Dangers (http://educate-yourself.org/vcd/)...Ken]

AUSTIN — Gov. Rick Perry ordered today that schoolgirls in Texas must be vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer, making Texas the first state to require the shots.

The girls will have to get Merck & Co.'s new vaccine against strains of the human papillomavirus, or HPV, that are responsible for most cases of cervical cancer.

Merck is bankrolling efforts to pass laws in state legislatures across the country mandating its Gardasil vaccine for girls as young as 11 or 12. It doubled its lobbying budget in Texas and has funneled money through Women in Government, an advocacy group made up of female state legislators around the country.

Details of the order were not immediately available, but the governor's office confirmed to The Associated Press that he was signing the order and he would comment Friday afternoon.

Perry has several ties to Merck and Women in Government. One of the drug company's three lobbyists in Texas is Mike Toomey, his former chief of staff. His current chief of staff's mother-in-law, Texas Republican state Rep. Dianne White Delisi, is a state director for Women in Government.

Toomey was expected to be able to woo conservative legislators concerned about the requirement stepping on parent's rights and about signaling tacit approval of sexual activity to young girls. Delisi, as head of the House public health committee, which likely would have considered legislation filed by a Democratic member, also would have helped ease conservative opposition.

Perry also received $6,000 from Merck's political action committee during his re-election campaign.

It wasn't immediately clear how long the order would last and whether the legislation was still necessary. However it could have been difficult to muster support from lawmakers who champion abstinence education and parents' rights.

Perry, a conservative Christian who opposes abortion rights and stem-cell research using embryonic cells, counts on the religious right for his political base.

But he has said the cervical cancer vaccine is no different than the one that protects children against polio.

"If there are diseases in our society that are going to cost us large amounts of money, it just makes good economic sense, not to mention the health and well being of these individuals to have those vaccines available," he said.

Texas allows parents to opt out of inoculations by filing an affidavit stating that he or she objected to the vaccine for religious or philosophical reasons.

Even with such provisions, however, conservative groups say mandates take away parents' rights to be the primary medical decision maker for their children.

The federal government approved Gardasil in June, and a government advisory panel has recommended that all girls get the shots at 11 and 12, before they are likely to be sexually active.

The New Jersey-based drug company could generate billions in sales if Gardasil — at $360 for the three-shot regimen — were made mandatory across the country. Most insurance companies now cover the vaccine, which has been shown to have no serious side effects.

Merck spokeswoman Janet Skidmore would not say how much the company is spending on lobbyists or how much it has donated to Women in Government. Susan Crosby, the group's president, also declined to specify how much the drug company gave.

A top official from Merck's vaccine division sits on Women in Government's business council, and many of the bills around the country have been introduced by members of Women in Government.

Here's a great letter to the editor that is
written by one of our Vac Lib members. It's also posted on our page below.
I would encourage others in Texas to write similar letters to their
newspapers and also their state representatives.

In the short time we have been residents of Lockhart, one of the most
beautiful things we have noticed about families here is the respect that children
have for their parents and adults in general. Young people are courteous and
well-mannered, and comport themselves with modesty and aplomb.

What a shock yesterday to learn that Gov. Perry has insulted these precious
children by mandating a medical procedure that presumes the young girls of
Texas to be sluts.

King Perry’s intrusive executive order bypassed the legislature and the
proper means of enacting a new law. In a political move usually reserved for
tyrants and dictators, he has unilaterally decreed that all 11- and 12- year old
girls shall submit to a controversial vaccine for sexually-transmitted
cervical cancer, Gardasil. Since these children are minors and depending on their
parents for their protection and well-being, essentially this is an edict for
all parents to surrender their children to the state for medical
experimentation.

As a Counselor of Natural Health, I oppose vaccines in principle. Vaccines
cause an imbalance in humoral and cellular immunity, and violate the body’s
God-given way of handling disease through the mucous membranes and white blood
cells. With the possible exception of tetanus, no disease ever goes directly
into the bloodstream—vaccines do. Vaccines contain toxic chemicals like
formaldehyde, methyl mercury, MSG, foreign DNA from monkeys, rotten eggs, dogs,
and yes, even lung tissue from aborted babies. Each dose of Gardasil (the full
protocol requires three doses) contains 225 micrograms of aluminum, known to
cause tangles of nerve fibers that can lead to Alzheimer’s disease. That’s
675 mcg aluminum just from one vaccine. Add this to the cumulative total from
all the other shots, and maybe it becomes clear why the Center for Disease
Control tells us that 30% of young people have chronic illness of some kind.

I also oppose any form of mixing the DNA of one species and splicing it into
another. This is an abomination called genetic engineering, and is
supplanting the mark of God on His creation (“after their kind”) with the mark of a
technological, proud beast who thinks he can wage war on the Omnipotent One
with impunity. Gardasil contains genetically engineered bacteria. GE bacteria
in our food has caused an unprecedented rise in allergies, asthma, and other
chronic disease in children. What in the world can we expect when these
mutated concoctions are injected into the bloodstream of pre-adolescent children?

Prudence and common sense demand an answer before making decisions for
little ones whose lives depend on us. There have already been 82 cases (read:
children) of serious illness due to Gardasil since this past June reported to the
Vaccine Events Reporting System. The FDA tells us that only 10% of all
reactions are reported, so this means there could well be 800- 900 cases of
injury. This is just short-term. Long-term consequences are immeasurable. Dr. John
Martin of the Center for Complex Infectious Diseases has spent his life
trying to undo the harm done by the SV40 virus from African green monkeys that was
in polio vaccines given to children in the late 1950’s and early 60’s. Many
of those children, mostly women in middle-age, now have autoimmune disorders
like lupus, chronic fatigue syndrome, MS, and forms of mental illness
heretofore unseen.

As a Constitutionist, I oppose any political trumping of the separation of
powers. The Founding Fathers’ brilliance of bequeathing our political system
with checks and balances has never been equaled. Ben Franklin told us that
they gave us a Republic, “if we can keep it.” Ambitious men like Perry should
be immediately removed from office, as he has violated his oath to uphold the
Constitution and our sacred heritage of rule by law.

As an American, I oppose any usurping of my inalienable rights to life and
liberty. Vaccines have been used worldwide as devices of population control.
In the early 1990’s in Mexico, Nicaragua, and the Philippines, women (not the
men, who are presumed to be more careful not to encounter rusty nails)
between 12 and 49 were given tetanus shots that contained the pregnancy hormone
hCG. This means that the ladies would develop antibodies to the fetus when they
conceived, and a ‘spontaneous’ abortion would occur. Did these women receive
full disclosure that they were submitting to sterilization when they got in
line for “protection” from disease? The same good ol’ boys in the United
Nations who carried out this travesty are the same ones dictating policy for our
government. How do we know that Gardasil is not the “tetanus shot” for
American women?

As a Christian, I oppose being a victim on the altar of Pragmatism. This is
the doctrine that all truth and concepts are defined by their practical
consequences. Good and evil are arbitrary, because right and wrong are not
constant absolutes but evolving with society. When our government does not defer to
a sovereign, holy God who says that life is sacred, but to the dollars of Big
Pharma, we are on a slippery slope indeed. We, our children, and all
Americans become mere chattel to be used at the whim of spurious scientists and
greedy politicians. Thus, the fact that Merck lost billions on the Vioxx scandal
last year and is hungrily looking to appease stockholders should be weighed
carefully.

As a mother, I am mad as hell. How dare anyone give any kind of unproven
medication to my daughter or granddaughter that could have unknown
repercussions? How dare they!!! Does the state have a womb? Would the state lay
down its
life for my child? Even nature itself cries out against this, as most sentient
beings know better than to disturb a mother bear with cubs, or a lioness, or
even a dumb dog with her pups. Are American mothers, yea, even Texian
mothers, less caring than brute animals? I think not, and I believe—I hope—that
this political regime is going to get a good dose of maternal righteous
indignation from El Paso to Port Arthur and Brownsville to Perryton.

Let’s not forget Texian dads and grandpas. What an insult to holy fatherhood
to think that this wannabe monarch, a minion of cruel, greedy drug pushers,
would presume that the men of this State would passively stand by while their
daughters are medically mauled! There’s a road sign here in this great state
that says it all for this Grandma, “Don’t Mess With Texas.”

Donna Voetee

“Never, Ever Lukewarm”

Author Bio

Donna Voetee and her husband have just left their native California and
relocated to Texas where their children and grandchildren live. Donna believes that her son’s encounter with aplastic anemia was due to a compromised immune
system due to vaccines. Donna is a Counselor of Natural Health and the author
of Supermarket Survival, a series of classes she will soon be teaching in
Lockhart, Texas. She can be reached at .... or at (512) 398-7800 after March 1.

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